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Imitation learning trains control policies by mimicking pre-recorded expert demonstrations. In partially observable settings, imitation policies must rely on observation histories, but many seemingly paradoxical results show better…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Chuan Wen , Jierui Lin , Jianing Qian , Yang Gao , Dinesh Jayaraman

Modern artificial intelligence (AI) applications require large quantities of training and test data. This need creates critical challenges not only concerning the availability of such data, but also regarding its quality. For example,…

End-to-end learning robotic manipulation with high data efficiency is one of the key challenges in robotics. The latest methods that utilize human demonstration data and unsupervised representation learning has proven to be a promising…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Jin Li , Xianyuan Zhan , Zixu Xiao , Guyue Zhou

Quantum control requires high-precision and robust control pulses to ensure optimal system performance. However, control sequences generated with a system model may suffer from model bias, leading to low fidelity. While model-free…

Sample efficiency is a crucial problem in deep reinforcement learning. Recent algorithms, such as REDQ and DroQ, found a way to improve the sample efficiency by increasing the update-to-data (UTD) ratio to 20 gradient update steps on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Aditya Bhatt , Daniel Palenicek , Boris Belousov , Max Argus , Artemij Amiranashvili , Thomas Brox , Jan Peters

Imitation learning advances robot capabilities by enabling the acquisition of diverse behaviors from human demonstrations. However, large-scale datasets used for policy training often introduce substantial variability in quality, which can…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Yu Zhang , Yuqi Xie , Huihan Liu , Rutav Shah , Michael Wan , Linxi Fan , Yuke Zhu

It is well known that the quality and quantity of training data are significant factors which affect the development and performance of machine intelligence algorithms. Without representative data, neither scientists nor algorithms would be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Georgios Mastorakis

Recent research has highlighted the importance of data quality in scaling large language models (LLMs). However, automated data quality control faces unique challenges in collaborative settings where sharing is not allowed directly between…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Wanru Zhao , Hongxiang Fan , Shell Xu Hu , Wangchunshu Zhou , Bofan Chen , Nicholas D. Lane

Industrial automation is at a pivotal moment, as Physical AI is driving a transition from rigid, hand-engineered automation systems toward more flexible and adaptive systems. This shift has created a growing demand for large-scale,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Gokul Narayanan , Yash Shahapurkar , Melih Erdogan , Brian Zhu , Eugen Solowjow

Formalisms based on quantum theory have been used in Cognitive Science for decades due to their descriptive features. A quantum-like (QL) approach provides descriptive features such as state superposition and probabilistic interference…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Davide Lanza , Paolo Solinas , Fulvio Mastrogiovanni

Data-centric learning seeks to improve model performance from the perspective of data quality, and has been drawing increasing attention in the machine learning community. Among its key tools, influence functions provide a powerful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Shahriar Kabir Nahin , Wenxiao Xiao , Joshua Liu , Anshuman Chhabra , Hongfu Liu

Imitation learning has emerged as a powerful paradigm in robot manipulation, yet its generalization capability remains constrained by object-specific dependencies in limited expert demonstrations. To address this challenge, we propose…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Zhuochen Miao , Jun Lv , Hongjie Fang , Yang Jin , Cewu Lu

Can learning to measure the quality of an action help in measuring the quality of other actions? If so, can consolidated samples from multiple actions help improve the performance of current approaches? In this paper, we carry out…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Paritosh Parmar , Brendan Tran Morris

Real-world software applications must constantly evolve to remain relevant. This evolution occurs when developing new applications or adapting existing ones to meet new requirements, make corrections, or incorporate future functionality.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Sebastian Hönel

We present a Quality-Diversity benchmark suite for Deep Neuroevolution in Reinforcement Learning domains for robot control. The suite includes the definition of tasks, environments, behavioral descriptors, and fitness. We specify different…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Manon Flageat , Bryan Lim , Luca Grillotti , Maxime Allard , Simón C. Smith , Antoine Cully

Data-centric learning emphasizes curating high-quality training samples to boost performance rather than designing new architectures. A central problem is to estimate the influence of training sample efficiently. Prior studies largely focus…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Ziao Yang , Longbo Huang , Hongfu Liu

The quality of training data has a huge impact on the efficiency, accuracy and complexity of machine learning tasks. Various tools and techniques are available that assess data quality with respect to general cleaning and profiling checks.…

Learning from demonstration is widely used as an efficient way for robots to acquire new skills. However, it typically requires that demonstrations provide full access to the state and action sequences. In contrast, learning from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Zachary W. Robertson , Matthew R. Walter

Learning from Demonstrations (LfD) allows robots to learn skills from human users, but its effectiveness can suffer due to sub-optimal teaching, especially from untrained demonstrators. Active LfD aims to improve this by letting robots…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Muhan Hou , Koen Hindriks , A. E. Eiben , Kim Baraka

In swarm robotics, any of the robots in a swarm may be affected by different faults, resulting in significant performance declines. To allow fault recovery from randomly injected faults to different robots in a swarm, a model-free approach…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-08 David M. Bossens , Danesh Tarapore